Wees vs Weds - What's the difference?
wees | weds |
(wee)
(Scotland, Northern Ireland, North England, NZ) Small, little.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 73:
(colloquial, uncountable) urine
(colloquial) An act of urination.
(colloquial) To urinate.
(wed)
To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
* Milton
To take as one's spouse.
To take a spouse.
(figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)
* Shakespeare
* Tillotson
* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 72:
(figurative) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
* Clarendon
As verbs the difference between wees and weds
is that wees is third-person singular of wee while weds is third-person singular of wed.As a noun Weds is
abbreviation of Wednesday|lang=en.wees
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----wee
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(wikipedia wee)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (15c).Adjective
(er)- I had not seen a wee' boy do it like that before. He was ' weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.
- You looked a little cold so I lit a wee fire.
References
* Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)Etymology 2
UnknownNoun
(-)- to have a wee
Synonyms
* wee wee * See also * See alsoVerb
Synonyms
* See alsoweds
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wed
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Verb
- The priest wed the couple.
- And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her.
- She wed her first love.
- Thou art wedded to calamity.
- Men are wedded to their lusts.
- They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.